Glow 28" Silver Beauty Dish for Hensel Mount

Discover the transformative power of the Glow 28" Silver Beauty Dish for Hensel, a renowned light modifier celebrated for its ability to produce striking portraiture and fashion images. This unique beauty dish leverages a double parabolic reflector system to achieve its distinctive diffusion properties, creating a blend of effects that merge the characteristics of a direct flash and a softbox. The result is an image that boasts a wrap-around look, similar to a softbox, but with enhanced contrast and a more dramatic directed beam. The silver finish of this beauty dish not only delivers a higher output but also creates more contrast, highlighting the intricate details of your subject.

Designed to mount onto most brands of studio flash and monolights, this beauty dish requires speedrings for attachment, which are sold separately. The 28" Silver version is versatile, perfect for everything from head and shoulders portraits to dramatic full-figure studies. It's also ideal for subjects in tight spaces where traditional softboxes and umbrellas may not be suitable. The Glow 28" Silver Beauty Dish features a small opaque reflective cover suspended directly over the light source, preventing direct light from hitting the subject. The light bounces backwards off the small interior disk, flooding the larger bowl of the beauty dish and producing a wide cast of softer light than a standard reflector, and significantly better than the harshness of a speedlight.

The position of the small center reflector cap is adjustable, allowing you to control the spread to the large bowl and accommodate tall or high wattage modeling lights. The beauty dish comes with a diffusion fabric panel, known as "socks, " which softens the ring of focused light, lowers the degree of contrast, and softens the edges of shadows. Photographers often use the Glow Beauty Dish on monolights, flash heads, and speedlights for flattering people shots, especially for sculpting facial features and creating beautiful shadows and catch lights. The larger 28" diameter model can produce a beam with more 'reach', scattering more focused light to treat larger subjects and areas.

The interior of the Glow Beauty Dish is available in two coatings. The silver finish delivers higher output, creates more contrast, and brings out more detail than its white counterpart. The pure white interior version minimizes hot spots, smoothes skin tone, and reveals less texture. The optional Glow honeycomb grid is a powerful tool for photographers seeking more control over their light source's beam. By covering the aperture of the reflector with the disk, you can feather the hard light for an attractive shadow, add high key depth for fashion images, and emphasize the model's facial structure.

In summary, the Glow 28" Silver Beauty Dish for Hensel is a versatile and powerful tool for photographers seeking to enhance their lighting setup and create stunning, professional images.